Fairview Homes for Sale in Vancouver

Condo buildings in Fairview

Terraces on 7th — 1570 West 7th Avenue

A 55+ retirement community on the Fairview Slopes, managed by Tribe Management per the building directory. Sources differ on the year built: current listings record built 2002 while the building directory records 2003. The directory records the bylaws as: age restrictions, pets allowed; a current listing states the detail: 55-plus age restriction, 1 cat or 1 dog allowed, and a mandatory service agreement including 10 meals per month, weekly housekeeping and 24-hour concierge. The 55+ bylaw is the one age restriction BC law still permits — the service agreement is a contract cost on top of strata fees and must be priced into any purchase here.

Manhattan West — 1590 West 8th Avenue (at Fir Street)

A concrete high-rise built 1992, Strata Plan LMS328: 62 units over 18 levels per the building directory.

The Oaks — 3089 Oak Street

A 4-level building built 2004, recorded in the building index as Freehold Strata.

Streets, schools and transit near Fairview condos

• Fairview is on the south shore of False Creek, stretching from Granville Island east to Science World, and south to Shaughnessy; it takes in all of False Creek South, South Granville north of 16th Avenue, the Granville and Burrard corridors and the Broadway spine between Clark Drive and Vine Street.
• Where the condo stock concentrates: in three distinct pockets — the False Creek South waterfront (mostly City ground-lease stock, excluded below), the Fairview Slopes / West 7th–8th Avenue belt above the shore (Terraces on 7th, Manhattan West), and the Oak Street / Marpole Avenue edge toward Shaughnessy (Hycroft Towers, The Oaks).
• Main streets: West Broadway, Granville Street, Burrard Street, Oak Street, Cambie Street, West 4th, 6th, 10th, 12th and 16th Avenues. Vancouver General Hospital anchors the area at 899 West 12th Avenue.
• Transit: the Broadway Subway (Millennium Line Broadway Extension) is a 5.7 km extension with six stations; the Province states it will open in fall 2027, with South Granville Station and Broadway-City Hall Station serving the area's west end and Cambie edge.

Good to know about Fairview condos

• The City owns about 80% of False Creek South. That single fact explains the area's tenure mix — 12 leasehold strata buildings, 7 co-ops and 6 rental buildings on City land per the City's October 21, 2021 presentation — and why "waterfront Fairview" and "freehold Fairview" are different markets.
• Most False Creek leases expire in 2036 per the secondary guide — inside a standard 25-year mortgage horizon, which is why lenders and buyers discount the stock and why the remaining lease term, not the suite, is the first number to check.
• Three heritage houses at 16th and Burrard are one townhome project. The Maguire (1913), Bayne (1919) and Elson (1919) residences were restored as Heritage: Sixteenth & Burrard — 12 homes total — and the City's November 14, 2017 hearing minutes record all three as designated protected heritage property, which binds future exterior work.
• Hycroft Towers predates the strata era it now lives in. Completed in 1952 as a rental-era Art Deco tower (Semmens & Simpson), it is today Strata Plan VAS90 with 158 units — an early-plan strata whose documents reward a slow read.
• South Granville's Gallery Row is in Fairview. The South Granville shopping district and its Gallery Row art galleries sit inside the local area north of 16th Avenue — the retail amenity base for the Slopes and Oak Street stock.
• Firehall Library is the branch. Vancouver Public Library's Firehall Branch is at 1455 West 10th Avenue, and Charleson Park (999 Charleson Street) sits on the False Creek South shore — the two civic anchors for the waterfront stock.

The province-wide rules are on one page: BC condo buying rules.

Sources for the condo notes on Fairview

• Building facts: MLS® listing records and strata directories.

• Listing details: MLS® listing records.

• City of Vancouver P3 (opens in a new tab) PDFcouncil.vancouver.ca↗
• City of Vancouver Pspc2revisedstaffpresentation (opens in a new tab) PDFcouncil.vancouver.ca↗

• Presale details: the developers’ own sales materials.

• formwerks.ca Formwerks (developer’s website) (opens in a new tab) Web pageformwerks.ca↗
• City of Vancouver Phea20171114min (opens in a new tab) PDFcouncil.vancouver.ca↗
• BC Real Estate Association Strata Depreciation Report Mandates a Guide for Real Estate Professionals (opens in a new tab) Web pagebcrea.bc.ca↗
• Province of BC Depreciation Report Requirements (opens in a new tab) Web pagewww2.gov.bc.ca↗
• Government of Canada Excise and GST/HST News No. 122 (opens in a new tab) Web pagecanada.ca↗
• Equity Law Group Closing Costs BC Home Purchase (opens in a new tab) Web pageequitylawgroup.ca↗

Lots and land in Fairview

Fee-simple lots

• Fairview Slopes lots (FM-1 District Schedule): the FM-1 schedule covers the Fairview Slopes and states its intent is to enhance the small-scale residential character of the neighbourhood by encouraging retention of existing houses and permitting new low-profile residential development; FM-1 permits single detached houses, duplexes, multiple dwellings and multiple conversion dwellings, with a maximum floor space ratio of 0.60 and no minimum site area stated in the schedule overview. These are schedule rules, not a claim about any existing lot's size.
• Southern-street lots (R1-1 District Schedule): residential lots in the southern part of the local area also fall under R1-1 — minimum site area 306 m² for a single detached house or duplex and for a multiple dwelling of 3 to 4 units (minimum frontage 10.0 m), 464 m² for 5 units (13.4 m) and 557 m² for 6 to 8 units (15.1 m); a multiplex of up to 6 units or up to 8 rental units is permitted, and a single detached house may include a secondary suite and a laneway house.
• Commercial / mixed-use frontage: C-3A covers the commercial mixed-use streets (Broadway, Granville and the other arterials) — arterial frontage is development-site ground, not house-lot ground, and is priced on the district schedule and the Broadway Plan, not on lot comparables alone.
• Serviced position: homes here are on City water and sewer services.
• ALR status is a property-specific check through the Agricultural Land Commission.
• Historic lot fabric — built fabric, not offerings: the City states Fairview was named by CPR Land Commissioner L.A. Hamilton, whose survey established the numbered system of east-west avenues and named the cross streets after trees, and that the False Creek and Fairview Slopes area was a forest of fir trees before that survey. That survey fabric is the origin of the existing lot pattern — history, not a subdivision offering.

Leasehold ground

• False Creek South — City-held land under ground leases, inside this local area: A purchase in False Creek South is a purchase of a leasehold interest (or a strata/co-op interest on leased land), never of the fee-simple land itself — do not price it against freehold Fairview lots.
• This leasehold position belongs to False Creek South ground inside Fairview only; it is stated here because the ground is here, and it is not a position about any other area's waterfront.

Assemblies, development sites and plan ground

• Broadway Plan ground (northern half): the Broadway Plan is the City's plan for new housing, jobs and amenities around the Broadway Subway in Kitsilano, Fairview and Mount Pleasant, covering the area between Clark Drive and Vine Street and 1st and 16th Avenues — so it covers Fairview's northern half.
• South Granville corridor ground — cross-reference only
• Named stock cross-references (no land count taken): None is a land offering and none is re-documented here.

Streets, schools and transit near Fairview lots

• Main roads: West Broadway, Granville Street, Burrard Street, Cambie Street and West 2nd Avenue serve the area, with the Granville Street, Burrard Street and Cambie Street bridges crossing False Creek at its north edge. Transit: the 99 B-Line runs from Commercial-Broadway Station to UBC via West Broadway, passing Broadway-City Hall Station, and route 9 serves Broadway to Alma Street; Broadway-City Hall Station (Canada Line) and Olympic Village Station (Canada Line) serve the east and north-east edges, and route 50 runs from Waterfront Station via Granville Island to Olympic Village Station.
• Transit — Broadway Subway: a 5.7-kilometre extension of the Millennium Line from VCC-Clark Station to Arbutus Street with six new stations; the Province states it is on schedule to open in fall 2027, and its South Granville and Broadway-City Hall stations sit in and at the edge of Fairview on the West Broadway corridor.
• Civic anchors: Vancouver General Hospital, 899 West 12th Avenue, is inside the local area on the West Broadway corridor; Firehall Branch of Vancouver Public Library, 1455 West 10th Avenue, serves the area; Charleson Park, 999 Charleson Street, sits on the False Creek seawall in False Creek South, and the seawall runs the area's whole north edge.

Local rules that affect land buyers in Fairview

• Zoning — Zoning and Development By-law No. 3575 (City of Vancouver): the district schedules that govern Fairview land are FM-1 (Fairview Slopes — maximum FSR 0.60, no minimum site area stated in the schedule overview, intent of retaining existing houses and low-profile new development), R1-1 (southern streets — minimum site areas 306 m² / 464 m² / 557 m² by unit count, multiplex to 6 units or 8 rental units, secondary suite and laneway house with a single detached house) and C-3A on the commercial mixed-use streets. Confirm the district for the specific lot on the City's zoning map before pricing any potential.
• Community plan / SSMUH position as the City states it: the Broadway Plan covers Fairview's northern half (Clark Drive to Vine Street, 1st to 16th Avenues) as the plan for new housing, jobs and amenities around the Broadway Subway, and the Broadway Subway is scheduled to open in fall 2027.
• Floodplain diligence — the north-edge item: the False Creek shoreline along the north edge is inside the City's designated floodplain dataset, and the City's False Creek Coastal Adaptation Plan states the False Creek floodplain area includes False Creek South passing through Fairview along the south shore; land in the floodplain is subject to the Vancouver Building By-law Floodplain Standards and Requirements for setbacks and flood construction levels. Whether a specific parcel is in the floodplain: check the parcel in the City dataset before subjects come off.
• If a parcel is in the ALR: subdivision within the ALR requires ALC approval; ALR residences cannot be stratified. On ALR land the main house can be up to 500 m², a suite is allowed only inside it, and an extra residence can be up to 90 m² (186 m² on parcels over 40 ha). For farm class, BC Assessment looks for farm income of $10,000 a year on under 0.8 ha, $2,500 on 0.8 to 4 ha, and $2,500 plus 5% of the value of land over 4 ha; applications are due by October 31. Check the parcel on ALC mapping before applying any of this.
• Vancouver Empty Homes Tax — 3%, vancouver only, applies here: properties declared, determined or deemed vacant are subject to a 3% tax of the property's assessed value, levied on empty and under-utilized Class 1 residential properties in the City of Vancouver; most residential properties are not subject to the tax, including principal residences and homes rented out for at least six months of the year. Vancouver owners must submit an annual property status declaration; the 2025 Empty Homes Tax payment was due April 16, 2026, with a 5% penalty on the unpaid balance after that date. A vacant Fairview lot or a house lot held empty carries this exposure in a way a New Westminster or Burnaby lot does not — the EHT is a City of Vancouver tax only.

Good to know about Fairview lots

• The Slopes schedule has no minimum lot size — and that cuts both ways (FM-1): FM-1 states no minimum site area in its schedule overview and caps floor space ratio at 0.60, so a Slopes lot's potential is read off the FSR cap and the retention intent, not off a subdivision minimum — copying the R1-1 ladder (306 m² and up) onto a Slopes lot misstates both its buildable area and its split potential.
• The street pattern itself is a CPR survey artifact: the City states the numbered east-west avenues and tree-named cross streets came from CPR Land Commissioner L.A. Hamilton's survey, over what was a forest of fir trees — the regular lot fabric a buyer sees on the southern streets is that survey, still legible in the parcel pattern.
• (Published CMHC range is 0.6%–4.5%.)

The province-wide rules are on one page: BC land buying rules.

Sources for the land notes on Fairview

• City of Vancouver Broadway Plan Approved by Council (opens in a new tab) Web pagevancouver.ca↗
• City of Vancouver bylaws zoning by law district schedule FM 1 (opens in a new tab) PDFbylaws.vancouver.ca↗
• City of Vancouver bylaws zoning by law district schedule R1 1 (opens in a new tab) PDFbylaws.vancouver.ca↗
• City of Vancouver Deadlines and Penalties (opens in a new tab) Web pagevancouver.ca↗
• City of Vancouver False Creek South Leases on City Land (opens in a new tab) Web pagevancouver.ca↗

Vancouver neighbourhoods

• Vancouver neighbourhood guides: map and prices for all 41 areas
• False Creek real estate
• Kerrisdale real estate
• Kitsilano real estate
• MacKenzie Heights real estate
• Marpole real estate
• Mount Pleasant (East) real estate
• Oakridge real estate
• Point Grey real estate